Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-05-27

ion of the said Court, having due re-
gard for the number and character
of the petitioners for and against
such application, such license is not
necessary for the accommodation OF
the public and entertainment OF
strangers or travellers, or that the
applicant or applicants is or are not
fit persons to whom such license
should be granted; and upon sufficient
cause being shown, or proof being
made, to the said Court that the party
holding q license has violated any
law of this Commonwealth relating
to the sale of liquors. the Court of
Quarter Sessions shall, upon notice
being given to the person so licensed,
revoke the said license, Provided
that ell the additional petitions and
remonstrances allowed by this Sec
ton shall be based on the necessity
of the license to sell liquors, or the fit
ness of the applicant, or the necessity
of the hotel, inn or tavern, house,
or place wherein vinous, spirituous,
malt or brewed liquors or any admix-
ture thereof are sold, in the locality
where the applicant proposes to sell
the liquors.
Section 8. That all persons licens-
ed to sell at retail any vinous, spirit
uous, L alt or brewed liquors or any
admixture thereof in any house, room
or place shall be classified and requir-
ed to pay annually for such privileges
as follows: Persons licensed to sell by
retail residents in cities of the fists
ond and third class shall pay the sum
of $500; those residents in all other
cities sh all pay $500, and those resi-
dents in boroughs S hall pay the sum of
15O;those residents in townships shall
pay the sum of SIS, which sum shall
be divided in portions as follows: In
cities of the first class four-ffths shall
be paid for the use of the city and
county, and one-fifth for the use of
the Commonwealth; in cities of the
second and third class two.fifths shall
be paid for the use of the city,
two fifths for the use of the proper
county and one-ffth for the use of
the Commonwealth;in all other cities
and boroughs three -ifths shall be
paid for the use of such city or
borough, one-fifth for the use of the
proper county and one-ifth for the
use of the Commonwealth; in town.
ships one half shall be paid for the
use of the township, one-fourth for
the use of the proper county and one
fourth for the use of the Common
wealth. Tie sum so paid for the use
of the townships to be applied to
keeping the roads of such townsh ip
in good repair. Provided that coun-
ties, cities, boroughs and townships
receiving part of said tlicenses shall
bear their proportionate share of the
expenses attending the collection of
the same; and provided further. that
the treasurers of the several counties
shall appropriate for their own use
the same commission on the amounts
retained for the use of their respec-
tive counties as they are now au-
thorized to retain by law out of the
moneys they returned to the State.
Section 8. If any person or per-
sons shall neglect or refuse to pay to
the City or County Treasury the sum
of money directed in Section S,within
fifteen days after his, her or their ap-
plication for license has been granted
by said Court, then and in that case
the said grant shall be deemed and
held revoked and no license issued
1t shall be the duty of the person or
persons whose application has been
granted by the said Court to pay the
said sum of money to the said Treas
urer within the said fifteen days, and
forth with produce to and file with
the Clerk of Court the receipt of the
said Treasurer therefor, and upon any
default the said Clerk shall forthwith
mark said application and grant
revoked"
Section 10. That the license shall
not be issued to any person or per-
sons until he, she or they shall have
executed bond to the Common
wealth and warrant of attorney to
confess judgement in the penal sum
of 50, 900, with two sufficient sureties,
to be approved by the Court grant
ing such license, conditioned for the
faithful observance of all the laws OF
this Commonwealth relating to the
selling or furnishing vinous, spiritu.
Gus, malt or brewed liquors, or any
admixture thereof, and to pay all
damages which may be recovered in
any action which may be instituted
against him, her or them under the
provisions of any act of the Assem-
bly,, and all costs, fines and penalties
which may be imposed upon him, her
or them under indictment for violat-
ing this act or any other act of AS
sembly relating to selling or furnish
ing liquors as aforesaid, and the said
bond shall be filed in the Office of the
Clerk of said Court, for the use and
benefit of all persons interested there
in.
Section III. The Constable of the
respective wards, boroughs or town
ships in each county shall, in the first
week in each term of the Court of
Quarter Sessions. make returns, un-
der oath, of all places in his bailiwick
where vinous, spirituous, malt or
brewed liquors, or any admix-
ture thereof, are kept for sale or sold,
except stores kept by druggists and
apothecaries, stating which of said
places are licensed under this act and
which are unlicensed; and it shall be
the especial duty of the Judge of said
Court to see that this return is faith
fully made; and on failure of any Con-
stable to comply with this provision,
! or, if it be found upon examination
or inquiry by said Court that any
Constable has either wilfully or neg
ligently omitted to return all such
houses and the names of the proprie-
tors thereof, in his bailiwick, he shall
be guilty of wilfully or negligently
making false returns, and the Court
shall suspend him from Office and di-
rect the District Attorney to indict
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